Threw on for one of my various impossible challenges I’ve given myself this year. I won’t lie, I still struggle attention-wise with silent movies even when they have a central protagonist and linear, Hollywood-style plotting, so the avant-garde storytelling and ensemble approach here (to a piece of geopolitical history I have little understanding of, to boot) was always going to be a challenge. It took me two days and like three different sittings to finish. YouTube.

That said, when I…

We’re back on that Bollywood grindset, venturing outside our now familiar SRK terrain with the help of some recs from Marsh’ friend who’s actually Indian and actually literate in her own culture. Netflix Australia, inexplicably.

Liked this. Lot of fun sequences and earnest heart.
I really like Kangana Ranaut as the lead, bringing the requisite charm for this kind of movie in spades, and giving the wound of Rani’s hurt all its raw edges. She’s funny, she’s awkward, she’s sometimes…

Watched on bbc one live, because how could I miss it. That there is the silliest I’ve ever felt writing one of these considering everyone else has just done the same thing but I write these for future me, I swear.

Really solid! Really interesting how it can replay the hits and tie itself so closely to its classic predecessor, while never feeling tired, desperate or samey. I suspect if I’d seen Wrong Tros recently I might think differently but…

Look, I’d inherited a bag of microwave popcorn from somewhere in May, it’d been sitting around all summer, and if I went back to uni with it still uneaten that would’ve been a failure. So I went looking on my Amazon prime list - since that’s the one I don’t have access to from next week - for a movie that fits the popcorn vibe, and this fit more than The Battle of Algiers. Was wanting to see this again…